Re: [gentoo-dev] make install suggestion/question

[Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>]

Aaron Blew <ablew@internetcds.com> writes:

> I have question/suggestion.  Is it really necessary to put mozilla,
> gnome and others in /opt?  I know it keeps it a bit more organzed and
> such, but it really makes it a pain when compiling things. Some
> programs, despite what they're told to use via the configure script
> insist on using includes from /usr/include instead of
> /opt/gnome/include.  If not changing it, at least provide sympolic
> links or something (ie ln -s /usr/gnome/include/* /usr/include/ ).  I
> think it would solve quite a few problems.

Hi!

I think it is wonderful to have a distribution that finally *does* put
things this way. I think it is better to fix those programs that
doesn't compile when GNOME (or KDE, mozilla) is located in other
locations than /usr since they are broken. They should be using
'gnome-config' in there Makefile (if they don't use auto*).

gnome-config --cflags libgnomeui for includes
gnome-config --libs libgnomeui for libs

If the configure-script is broken you can try to execute it with:

CFLAGS="-I/opt/gnome/include" LDFLAGS="-L/opt/gnome/lib" ./configure 

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal